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>I suggested the use of storing the correspondence in an xml format,
>using xsl stylesheets to process it to the selected output (pdf, txt,
>rtf, html, whatever else is out there). 
>I don't see much trouble with this, only I don't know if poi is yet
>implemented in an xsl environment like FOP. 
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I intend to do this once HDF is ready.

>As far as I understood most office documents are accessible by POI
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You could right now walk the tree structure with POIFS, and get 
authorship information with HPSF.

>Is there at the moment a "simple" way to read word documents wit POI, so
>we can extract the body text (not header or footer) using the HDF, or is
>there some work to be done in that area or is it expected to be stable? 
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Not yet.  There is work in this area (see 
src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hdf), however it doesn't work yet.
That being said, Ryan's original code donation that parses it into FOP 
is still there.  Right now Ryan is the
only one working on it, so its going a bit slow.   I'll be shifting back 
to working on it soon.  No way to predict
it exactly.

>Mvgr,
>Martin
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>PS just trying to use everything from apache ;)))
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I noble objective.

-Andy

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